To And Fro, Through Freeze And ThawsFrom Zenith
To NadirThe Universal Tug Of WarSaw Lines Drawn
In The Sands AppearDivisions For A Promised LandAnd
Hell For Those That DweltBeneath A Pharaoh's Granite
HandWhere Death Wed Something Else

Millennia Swam PassedSince The
Covened ArkRan Aground On Ararat...

But Anew, Tempered Shadows
GrewOut Of Midian, Strewing FearOver Verdant Lawns, The
Resurgent StormsLed A Desert Son To Sear

From The
Palace Orchard I Espied...(Where Swooning Trees And Moonbeams
ViedFor The Painted Eye Of The Royal BrideWhose
Gliding Curves Were Deified)... Beyond Her Grace Where
Love Would DieWretched Destiny Arrive

Back And Forth The
Prophet CameRiddled With A Tongue Of PlaguesThat Would
Render Mighty Egypt LameIf The Rage Of God
Stayed Unassuaged...I Listened With A Heavy HeartBut Unveiled
To The ThreatsThis Hebrew In A Jackal's MaskWould
Dredge Into Effect

Thenceforth The Nile ReddenedAs If Set
Stretched His HandTo Beset The Damned

And Bruised With
FliesThe Skies Grew Leadened

But These Miracles, FearedWere All
But RearedBy Nature, Whose Law AloneStood That Revered

Thus
Hysteria Passed, But Still The MarkOf Yahveh Burned
On In The Dark

One Final Time, On The
Steps To The ShrineOf Thoth, I Twined With
Fate"Let My People Go","Still My Word Is No""Then
Death Shall Be The Deciding Plague"

Since The Crimes
Divine I Left BehindI'd Warred With Every Tribe
That PliedIn Holy Vestment, But With TimeBored Sore
Of Clawing What Was MineI Laid My Bones
And Made My ThroneWith A View To Paradise

Thenceforth
The Heavens DeafenedAs If Great BeastsWere Unleashed To
Feast On ManAnd With Carrion SpanMichael Was Weaponed

To
Descend With ScornA Dark ReformThrough Pi-RamsesSkinning Mine And
Her Firstborn

Thus Suspiria Passed Each Sacred MarkOf Yahveh,
Bleeding In The Dark

With Nauseous Dawn, A Cry,
ForlornUnified From Plazas DeepThe Prophet's CurseFar Worse Had
WorkedTo Wrest The War In Me From Sleep

Drowned
In Night, A Downward LightBathed The Snaking ExodusThrough
The WildernessAs The Aeons CreptImpressed With Fresh Bloodlust